Posted on 4:19 am, Tuesday, December 16, 2014. Tags: el nino, fei-fei jin, julien boucharel, soest, uh manoa school of ocean and earth science and technology
MEDIA RELEASE El Nino, the abnormal warming of sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, is a well-studied tropical climate phenomenon that occurs every few years. It has major impacts on society and Earth’s climate – inducing intense droughts and floods in multiple regions of the globe. Further, scientists have observed that El Nino greatly […]
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Posted on 7:53 am, Thursday, June 6, 2013. Tags: axel timmermann, department of meteorology, el nino, fei-fei jin, international pacific research center, malte stuecker
MEDIA RELEASE El Nino wreaks havoc across the globe, shifting weather patterns that spawn droughts in some regions and floods in others. The impacts of this tropical Pacific climate phenomenon are well known and documented. A mystery, however, has remained despite decades of research: Why does El Nino always peak around Christmas and end quickly […]
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